Merchant House
Merchant House, 4, Rainbow Street, Leominster, HR6 8DQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255483
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Merchant House
- Statutory Address:
- Merchant House, 4, Rainbow Street, Leominster, HR6 8DQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255483
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Merchant House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Merchant House, 4, Rainbow Street, Leominster, HR6 8DQ
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Merchant House, 4, Rainbow Street, Leominster, HR6 8DQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leominster
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 49473 59051
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 January 2023 to update the name and address, amend description due to change of building use, and reformat the text to current standards
SO4959
808-1/1/177
LEOMINSTER
RAINBOW STREET (East side)
No 4, Merchant House
(Formerly listed as Rainbow Social Club and Institute, RAINBOW STREET (East side))
GV
II
Agricultural Merchant's Store, club (at time of survey) now subdivided into apartments. Dated 1888, with C18 rear. Brick; Welsh slate roof with central gable. Two storeys and cellar; three-window range: 6/6 casements, under ashlar lintels (to centre) and gauged brick flat arches; flanked by half-glazed double doors to lofts (to left with pulley-crane); three moulded brick pediments, to centre with tympanum, panels and date. Central entrance: C20 double doors in chamfered ashlar doorcase with keyblock and modillioned hood; flanked by large three-light windows with clerestory lights, under moulded hoods with fanlights, on cast-iron pillars; to right, half-glazed double doors and barred overlight under gauged brick flat arch with ashlar keyblock; to left, half-glazed panelled double doors with C20 panel over. Mosaic tile panels in ashlar architraves: "G R Hinton's General Stores"; "Corn Potatoes"; "Hay Straw". C18 range to rear: brick over rubble, with cast-iron lights, and hipped Welsh slate roof.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SO4947359051
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459759
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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